• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.575-584
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• 1993

The effects of atmosphere on the creep rupture properties of Ni-base superalloy Ren6 80 were investigated. Creep rupture tests were performed at $760^{\circ}C$, 657MPa and 982%, 157MPa under Ar gas atmospheres. Creep rupture mode and rupture properties (rupture life and elongation) were similar in two different atmospheres under the condition of $760^{\circ}C$, 657MPa. However, the results at $982^{\circ}C$, 157MPa showed different creep rupture mode and life between air and Ar gas atmospheres. In air, it was shown that creep cracks were initiated at surface-exposed grain boundaries and propagated along grain boundaries. In Ar gas atmosphere, the cracks were initiated at inner grain boundaries and coalesced to surface cracks which cause cup-and-cone type fracture. Due to protective oxide layer formation, air test showed longer rupture life than Ar test.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.157-162
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• 2011

High temperature and stress are encounted in power plants and vehicle engines. Therefore, determination of the creep-fatigue life of a material is necessary prior to fabricating equipments. In this study, life design was determined on the basis of the lethargy coefficient for different temperatures, stress and rupture times. SP-Creep test data was compared with computed data. The SP-Creep test was performed to obtain the rupture time for X20CrMoV121 steel. The integration life equation was considered for three cases with various load, temperature and load-temperature. First, the lethargy coefficient was calculated by using the obtained rupture stress and the rupture time that were determined by carrying out the SP-Creep test. Next, life was predicted on the basis of the temperature condition. Finally, it was observed that life decreases considerably due to the coupling effect that results when fatigue and creep occur simultaneously.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.92-100
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• 1997

Weld repair of ASTM A-470 class 8 high pressure (HP) steam turbine rotor steel has been performed to extend the service life of older fossil units. Microhardness measurements were conducted across the weldment from unaffected base metal (BM) to weld metal (WM). The hardness of the BM was VHN 253, however it dropped up to VHN 227 at the heat affected zone (HAZ) close to unaffected BM for multipass SAW. This area of hardness drop is called "siftening zone" and has a width of 0.5-0.6mm. During creep rupture test, failure occurred around the softening zone and rupture time was 772.4hr at 19Ksi (132 Mpa) and 593.deg. C. Multipass MIG and TIG welding have been employed to reduce the softening zone width. The softening zone width for MIG was 0.3-0.4mm and for TIG was zero-0.4mm depending on heat inputs. However creep rupture time was decreased as softening zone width reduced. Creep rupture time also showed a close relationship with heat inputs in TIG process. The higher heat input, the longer rupture time. Most failure occurred at intercritical HAZ (ICHAZ), however rupture location was shifted to coarse grained HAZ (CGHAZ) as heat input decreased. The rupture surface showed tearing and dimple which indicated transgranular fracture. fracture.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.17-25
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to present a method to estimate the storage life of propellant bag for degradation of breaking load with storage time by using gamma process model. The nitrogen compound generated by natural decomposition of propellants degrades the breaking load of propellant bag with time. The statistical distributions of condition and lifetime with time were shown from the results of accelerated life test of propellant bag cloth at $80^{\circ}C$. It was found that the use of median for life was highly appropriate and the $B_1$ or $B_5$ life should be selectively applied to the quality assurance policy.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.148-157
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• 2008

To describe the lifetime prediction of gas turbine core parts serviced in some ten thousands rpms at over $1,000^{\circ}C$, the Larson-Miller Creep Curves, which are formed by creep rupture tests as the destructive experiment with parameters of stress and temperature, are used often, but not exact and reliable with errors of over some tens. On the other hand, this study shows a non-destructive method with increased accuracy and reliability. The SEM and TEM specimens were extracted by replica after polishing the local airfoil and root surfaces of the first stage scraped blade (bucket), serviced for 18,000 hours at $1,280^{\circ}C$ in Gas Turbines of Boryong. The observed TEM and SEM precipitates were digitalized for calculation of the average size. Here we could find the precipitate size grown from $0.45{\mu}m$ to $0.6{\mu}m$ during service and the grown precipitates to be still sound. From these results we could conclude that the scraped balde can be used for ten thous and hours additionally and for twenty thousand hours by additional heat treatments on the scraped blade.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.206-215
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• 1996

원자로냉각재계통 기기 설계를 위한 구조해석 분야는 크게 세가지로 구분할 수 있는데, 첫번째는 원자로 냉각재계통내의 유체의 온도, 압력, 원자로냉각재계통 기기 및 유체의 자중 등을 고려하여 정적해석이 주가되는 정상운전해석, 두번째는 원자력 발전소 수명내에 부지에 발생 가능한 지진을 고려하는 내진설계를 위한 지진해석, 세번째는 원자력발전소를 다른 플랜트보다 한층 안전하게 설계할 수 있도록 원자력 발전소내의 모든 고에너지배관의 파단을 가상하는 가상배관파단해석으로 구분할 수 있다. 1986년 이전까지의 가압경수로발전소의 가상배관파단은 원자로냉각재주배관의 파단을 가상하여 동적구조해석을 수행하므로써, 극히 보수적인 결과를 얻었다. 그러나, 파괴역학의 발전은 파단전누설기법을 정립하였으며, 이에 따라 1987년 미국의 10 CFR Part 50 Appendix A GDC 4에서는 원자력발전소 내의 모든 고에너지배관에 파단전누설기법 적용을 허용하므로써, 이들 배관의 가상배관파단을 배제할 수 있도록 하였다. 한국형 표준원전인 울진원자력 3, 4호기의 참조발전소인 영광원자력 3, 4호기는 개정된 GDC 4를 적용한 최초의 가압경수로발전소로서, 원자로냉각재주배관과 12인치 이상의 일차측 분기관들의 가상배관파단을 배제하였다. 본 보고서에서는 영광원자력 3, 4호기의 참조발전소인 미국 Palo Verde발전소와 한국형 표준원전인 울진원자력 3, 4호기의 가상배관파단에 의한 원자로냉각재계통의 동적구조해석 결과를 서로 비교, 분석하므로써 개정된 GDC 4의 영향을 평가함은 물론 향후 분기관 가상배관파단해석의 방향을 모색하는데 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.2495-2500
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• 1994

A method of prediction for the fatigue life of surface crack, that is, initial cracks grow and penetrate through the thickness, was presented in the previous study of the author. Effects of parameters such as the initial crack length, material factors, etc., for the life were discussed. In this paper, the probabilistic distribution of the life is calculated. Effects of the distribution of parameters for the distribution of life were also discussed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.2837-2845
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• 1994

Several methods have been developed to predict on the remaining life of the old power plants. However, Larson-Miller parameter, one of existing creep life prediction methods, has not reflected the effect of material degradatioin and grain size. So this study has been carried out to research the effects of material degradation and austenite grain coarsening on the life prediction of 3.5Ni-Cr-Mo-V steel. An experimental result shows that carbide coarsening has no significant effects on the creep rupture life and the Larson-Miller parameter, but grain coarsening has an important influence on the creep ruptrure life and the Larson-Miller parameter. Therefore Larson-Miller constant, K should be determined to consider on the chemical composition and the grain size of materials.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.127.2-127.2
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• 2005

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.52 no.7
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• pp.50-53
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• 2012

피로는 하중이 반복됨에 따라 균열이 발생하고 진전하여 마침내 파단에 이르게 되는 현상으로 강 구조물 고장의 원인 중 70% 이상을 차지하고 있다. 이 글에서는 기본적인 피로수명 평가방법에 대하여 살펴보고 이를 바탕으로 용접구조물의 피로안전도를 평가하는 기술에 대하여 정리하여 보았다.